First let me say I promise not to allow this blog to become my personal flea market, it is just easiest to put the information here and point all other ads back to here.
If you read my blog you know that I have recently purchased a new to me Harley Davidson. Well, I didn’t intend to sell the GoldWing, rather keep it as a secondary bike for foul weather, or really long highway trips. However, the opportunity to purchase my dream bike has come up, and that is the reason my Wing is up for sale.
About the bike:
1984 GL1200i aka Goldwing Interstate
Has a little over 106,000 miles on it.
The good –
Engine runs perfectly smooth and burns NO oil.
I would jump on this bike and head to Colorado (which I have done in the last 6mo.) Not that I can warrant it would not have ANY mechanical issues, after all if I could truly predict that I would be playing the lottery, not selling the bike. But I wouldn’t hesitate to go anywhere on it.
Tires have ~1/2 life left in them (replaced aprox Aug last year)
Factory AM/FM/Cassette, works
Drivers backrest
Highway pegs
Starts every time without a moments hesitation
The not so good –
The slave cyl on the clutch was leaking, I have replaced it, and haven’t had any trouble with it, but don’t know if that truly fixed the issue or not (so I’m just letting you know, it shifts smooth and doesn’t appear to be still a problem.)
The vents on the R side have a couple broken off on the fairing. Not a mechanical issue, just cosmetic.
The tops of both backrests have sun damage and have been restiched poorly. Again not an issue, just not as perfect as possible.
The lower inside of the fairing has a crack as well in one of the cover plates.
The L side fairing pocket leather cover is missing.
The rubber for the L passenger floorboard is missing.
On the L side muffler there is some discoloration where some battery acid leaked after replacing the battery. (discoloration is on the slip on muffler, not through so no exhaust leak.)
The aux driving lights that someone added on the engine guards don’t work for some reason. (not the headlight, it works just fine.)
So… all the things that are not so good are really just cosmetic in nature. This bike is extremely trustworthy. It has been my daily driver and I put 20,000 of those miles on it in the last year. I have changed the oil religiously at 3-5,000 miles, and never saw any indication in the oil that there was any problem with the engine. Again, I would not be selling this if it were not for the fact that I want a different bike.
My asking price is $3250, but I am negotiable, especially if I don’t have to do any packing it up for shipping.
Looking at the pics the bike appears to be black, however it is actually Midnight Blue, very dark blue with little flecks of light in it. I will try to get some better pics if needed.
Retro
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